Modern Culture

Colorado’s first psychedelic healing centers could offer psilocybin yoga or microdosing at a coffee shop

That could mean retreat centers, yoga studios or social clubs could offer the treatments… While guided trips on large doses of mushrooms may be suitable for some… believe smaller dosing options are more approachable to a broader demographic… Denver business… will focus on microdosing. Their concept includes two separate spaces. The first is a coffee…

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Politics

An NYT story blamed leftists for obstructing psychedelic therapy… truth is…

Without the efforts of this “small band of anticapitalist activists,” the authors argue, Lykos Therapeutics’ “$250 million investment” in MDMA-AT may have paid off by being the first psychedelic therapy to get federal approval – potentially establishing the company as a multibillion-dollar enterprise. As a journalist who has followed the psychedelics movement for years and attended hearings…

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Politics

Oregon board rejects… request to direct all opioid settlement funds to harm reduction

That means Save Lives Oregon, a state-funded program that provides harm reduction resources, training and items such as clean syringes, Narcan and fentanyl test strips to local organizations, will get $5.1 million instead of $21.6 million in opioid settlement funding through 2027. Several members of the 18-person Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Board… stressed that…

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Science

…mothers of the mushroom

While large-scale studies are lacking, Mothers of the Mushroom gathered data points concerning mothers who ingested psilocybin during pregnancy and breastfeeding… offers insight from over 400 women who have used psilocybin while pregnant or breastfeeding… …[also] in a controlled study on pregnant rats using c-psilocin, no fetal fatalities were observed. While this does not confirm…

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Psychology

MDMA for active-duty troops…

The Department of Defense (DOD) is launching its first-ever clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for active-duty service members with PTSD at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. …funded via the Defense Appropriations Act, has a number of interesting features. Those include the use of D-amphetamine as a control, a combination of the Lykos Therapeutics model…

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Medicine/Healing

Homegrown trips: desperate for PTSD Relief, veterans turn to each other for DIY psychedelic treatments

A deployment in Afghanistan left her with a traumatic brain injury, a shattered ankle, and a broken vertebra. Like many veterans, she obliged when VA doctors prescribed pain and sleep medication to help numb constant physical pain. But the antidepressants and sedatives she was also taking for PTSD, anxiety, and depression barely touched the gnawing…

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Biography/Memoir

Ex-Rep. Kinzinger on GOP’s internal war over drug policy, cannabis, psychedelics – ‘Quite likely legal in 5-10 years’

Adam Kinzinger has never been one to toe the party line. As a former Republican congressman, he has seen his party shift over the years, growing more divided on key issues – including drug policy. “There is a group within this kind of new whatever-we-want-to-call-it Republican Party, I guess, that is very hardcore anti-drug,” Kinzinger says.…

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Psychology

“Bad trips” and guilt: Why difficult feelings during psychedelic use might actually be a good thing

A recent study in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs has shed light on a less discussed aspect of psychedelic experiences: the feelings of shame and guilt that can arise during these journeys. Mathai and his colleagues found that feelings of shame or guilt during psilocybin use were indeed common. Almost 70% of participants reported experiencing either shame…

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Spirituality

The gospel according to Amanita muscaria, the world’s most charismatic mushroom

…accounts of explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries witnessing mushroom rituals and shamanism in Siberia. Before the Russians and Finns introduced them to vodka, A muscaria was not only a sacrament but the inebriant of choice for the native tribes of Siberia and Lapland, in northern Scandinavia, eaten in a soup or fermented into a brew… British scholar John Allegro in…

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Politics

Colorado issues first psilocybin-related licenses, kicking off psychedelic industry rollout

As of Thursday afternoon [2/20/2025], the Department of Revenue’s Natural Medicine Division had approved seven license applications for prospective business owners, including one who wants to open a psilocybin mushroom cultivation and another who hopes to operate a healing center. Additionally, the division issued one license to a local who hopes to work in the…

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